John Hannah (Atlantis), Maxine Peake (Silk), Matt Lucas (Little Britain), Eleanor Matsuura (Spooks) and Hiran Abeysekera (Lion In The Tent) have signed on for starring role in BBC One's new take on the William Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream, which hails from BBC Cymru Wales and Doctor Who scribe Russell T. Davies.

BBC One has given the greenlight to a new six-part drama series from noted scribe Steve McQueen which opens in 1968 at the moment of Enoch Powell's notorious River of Blood speech. The BBC's flagship channel has also picked up Tony Jordan's Motown series and commissioned a one-off adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream from Doctor Who's Russell T. Davies.

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